Videoteca

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Hard to Be a God 1990 star_border 6.2
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Dial Code Santa Claus 1990 star_border 6.1
Home alone with his invalid grandfather on Christmas Eve, Thomas is forced to face a department store Santa Claus who is, in fact, a deranged escapee from a nearby asylum.

Doc's Kingdom 1988 star_border 5.4
An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.

A Flame in My Heart 1987 star_border 6.3
The film relates the painful ending of a love story binding an over-30-year-old woman and a North African, and the beginning and end of a relationship she also has with an “established” journalist. The stories illustrate the absolute claim of a woman who can understand love only in terms of life and death, an attitude that generally makes love appear dramatic, but at least burning and flickering, like the flame that glows in her heart.

Parking 1985 star_border 6.1
Orpheus is a rock star who composes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. As he wrestles with his additional love for Calaïs, his sound engineer, Orpheus finds that Eurydice had died of a drug overdose, so he descends into the Underworld to try and make a deal with Hades.

A Better Life 1985 star_border 2
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.

Ballade à blanc 1983

One Minute for One Image 1983 star_border 5.2
TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)

The Magic of the Kite 1958 star_border 8
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.

Paris mange son pain 1958 star_border 7
This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.